She asked:“is this the happiness ?the longing?”

她问：“这就是快乐，就是幸福吗？ 也是永远吗？”

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Desire is the longing to achieve a vision; without desire you have nothing.

希望是渴望做到一个目标，没有了希望，你就一无所有了。

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Ibrahim Muhawi's limpid translation captures the longing, the ache of exile.

伊伯拉罕•穆哈维的透彻翻译抓住了诗中的渴望和流亡之痛。

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Her voice and singing style are still easy to recognize, just like the sadness and longing in her love songs.

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The longing heart accumulates desires that become in time a kind of volatile waste, which can't be contained.

渴望的心聚集欲望,假以时日便成了,会挥发不能抑制的废物。

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It's the story of Aengus' longing and quest for union with a fairy girl whom he desires.

是安古斯渴望，寻求,和一个仙女结合的故事。

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Mostly, however, the longing for independence has been nurtured by the brutality of Indonesian rule.

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Through these extracts the reader can almost smell the longing and the willpower.

ECONOMIST: Russia

This beautifully written book is powerfully evocative of the human cost of war and the longing for love that, despite the shooting and shelling, never fades.

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